Child Tax Credit
(asked on 30th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was the total (a) expenditure on and (b) number of benefit claimants receiving Child Tax Credit in each of the last five years, in (i) England, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales, (iv) Northern Ireland, (v) each local authority and (vi) each constituency.
Information on the total expenditure on benefit claimants receiving Child Tax Credit or Working Tax Credit by Local Authority and Westminster Parliamentary Constituency would only be available at disproportionate cost.
The table below summarises the total expenditure on benefit claimants receiving any Personal Tax Credits for each year from 2017-2018 to 2021-2022.
Total expenditure on benefit claimants receiving Personal Tax Credits, 2017-18 to 2021-22
£m | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
England (1) | 22,101 | 18,751 | 15,432 | 12,676 | 9,174 |
Scotland | 1,821 | 1,540 | 1,240 | 999 | 715 |
Wales | 1,320 | 1,132 | 922 | 746 | 533 |
Northern Ireland | 973 | 849 | 726 | 637 | 490 |
Source: Country and regional analysis: 2022
(1) England is calculated as the sum of its 9 Government Office Regions
Information on the number of benefit claimants receiving Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit in each of the last 5 years in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, each Westminster Parliamentary Constituency and each Local Authority can be collated from published official statistics on Child and Working Tax Credit Awards between 2016-2017 and 2020-2021. Statistics for 2021-2022 will be published in Summer 2023.
Links to published statistics for 2016-2017 to 2020-2021 can be found below: